Don't forget that homophobia is still completely rampant in Japan, a country that is nowhere close to legalizing gay marriage or showing any other side of widespread tolerance.
Keeping your sexual orientation secret is a necessary safety precaution in a country like that. Which is why we need to be vigilant and resist these anti-queer right wingers everywhere in the world including at home. People deserve to not feel unsafe simply because of their born identity.
…his boss immediately told a female employee without his consent. The man eventually had to leave the job due to mental issues that resulted from being ignored by the woman.
I wonder what her problem was. Homophobic or just heavily uncomfortable because of societal norms and standards?
Unfortunately, I don’t think employers seeing their employees as mere resources is exclusive to Japan. Though they definitely like to dial it up to 11 there.
Study referenced in NYT article that was the basis for the article above:
Fallout from U.S. atmospheric nuclear tests in New Mexico and Nevada (1945-1962) https://arxiv.org/pdf/2307.11040.pdf
That sucks man. There’s something especially upsetting knowing how and why a loved one died, and that there was nothing that could’ve been done differently.
My Grandpa died of thyroid cancer from these tests. He lived in south-central Utah and remembers feeling tremors from testing on his wedding day.
Still the thumbnail shows people at the beach instead of dry river banks or the handful of remaining wild animals dying in our burning forests…
This is the equivalent of illustrating an article about the “possible danger of smoking cigarettes “ in the 60/70s and illustrating it with a cool picture of James Dean having a smoke.
This is also a El Nino year, and the start of the El Nino cycle. An El Nino cycle is typically 2-7 years long. So we'll experience even more disrupted rain cycles. For rain & monsoon dependent economies this'll be hell. Plus lesser rains means hotter & drier weather, longer droughts and food shortages.
Is there a term for more hellish/ worse than the current hell? We'll all be needing that term.
You’re right. The ENSO (El Niño Southern Oscillation) cycle can take up to 7 years, but that’s the entire cycle (El Niño, La Niña, and neutral). El Niño conditions may only last months. La Niña typically lasts longer.
This year, they expect El Niño conditions to continue at least til the end of the year.
Also, this past La Niña was unusually long, about three years long. I’m not sure what that signifies but it seems like it might be important.
Yeah, poor people are fucked… As much as I want to hope, it will be the poorest who will pay the greatest price. It has always been true for almost every major crisis in the world…
Everyone's fucked. We'll see mass migrations and mass deaths among poor people. and then the civilised world as we know it would end because it is sustsined by the labour provided by poor people.
There'll be no one to do the lowly paid but extremely important jobs. Will the wealthy grow & pick their own crops? rear and slaugter their own meat? fish fr their lobsters? or clear up garbage? or operate the sewage treatment plant?
Before the unexpectedly heavy rains that is killing people in India now, India witnessed a heatwave like never-before . We are used to heatwaves, but this year has been really grim. So many people died that the central govt & the UP state govt got scared and refused to classify these deaths due to heatstroke/ heatwave.
India's PM Modi has publicly said "climate is not changing, we are changing" and accepting these deaths as due to heatwave caused by climate change would embarrass the dictator. so it doesn't get acknowledged and nothing will be done to manage it.
We are somehow still not panicking and see that as a point of no return for climate change. These temperatures are still the lowest ones we will experience from now on.
Hopefully, some ignorant people or even climate change deniers will switch their positions and actually support green policies now.
Unfortunately, a lot of folks in power would happily watch the world burn if it means they stay in power. They know they’re rich enough that it won’t hurt them.
For deniers, it getting hotter will never work. There’s an argument about the world being in a long cycle between hot eras & ice ages and temperature records don’t mean much when accurate records only go back one or two hundred years.
A lot of deniers switch to some weird form of defiant stoicism, and pride themselves in taking that stance. I don’t believe there’s ever going to be any switch until the hurt is economic, and that might happen locally in some places, but not globally.
I am really scared for the daughters I have, in what kind of shit show they will have to live. But the scale of suffering this is going to cause is beyond the ability of our brains to process, and it will come down on the poorest and most vulnerable on the planet, and I have to say that is something that remains constant throughout modern history.
IAEA report here: iaea.org/…/iaea_comprehensive_alps_report.pdfThe direct danger to humans from the radiation is minimal but the report fails to include the danger from potential Godzilla or other Kaiju like events. Typical government bureaucracy.
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